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Re: Compost!

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Greens have a C:N ratio lower than 30:1; browns are higher than that, and
color actually has little to do with it.

Almost all manures in any state are 'greens'---coffee grounds are
'greens'....

Grass clippings that have only dried out are still greens, but once they
have been rained on half a dozen times or more, become more brown-like...

Straw is perhaps the best brown of all, as it aerates very well (as do wood
chips) but decomposes much more readily than wood chips do....

Hope this helps,

Frank Teuton

-----Original Message-----
From: CynMob@aol.com <CynMob@aol.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: Compost!


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>Okay, brown v. green.  Is the discriminator what color it is when you put
it
>in OR the original source of the material?  Fresh grass is green but the
old
>dry stuff is a brown?  And old horse manure is brown, while the more recent
>gleanings are a different color -- not even getting into the problem with
new
>manure burning -- and how new is new anyway? -- is horse manure either
brown
>or green depending on age?
>Cyn, a wee bit compulsive about it.
>
>
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